What are your thoughts on SolidWorks Mechanical Conceptual?
Here's mine...
- It seems to be Catia with a new skin, but familiar enough that SolidWorks users could learn it easy.
- This is or will run on the Enovia backbone if I understand it right. There will be lots of other solutions/products to sell us on the Enovia system.
- I've read that models back and forth to SolidWorks will be dumb.
- The price is at a point that is too high (1 years rental is about 1/2 a seat of SolidWorks)... which makes me think this is Catia light.
- Dassualt is messing things up and confusing people.
- Instead of making more functionality in SolidWorks, they are creating more products to sell us... Mechanical Conceptual, Industrial Conceptual, SolidWorks Electrical, SolidWorks Inspection,...
- SolidWorks the program will stagnate a bit, because it can't threaten Catia or Catia light too much.
- Users will at some point look at what other CAD solutions there are out there in the price range of SolidWorks, but with more capability (SolidEdge, Creo, SpaceClaim, AutoDesk Fusion 360, or some yet to be determined product). SolidWorks/Dassualt will make themselves ripe for users leaving here and there.
- There is room for someone to do a cloud based product for less money (\$50-\$175 per month depending on features) and upset the apple cart.
- Having files on the cloud doesn't bother me, and in due time I think will be less of an issue than some folks currently make it out to be.
- If you are a user of WorkGroup or EPDM, I think the rub with any new system will be how to migrate the information out of those and into something in the cloud or otherwise.